Gauthier de Biolley is the Founder and Managing Partner of Eiger Ventures (www.EigerVentures.com), an advisory and investment firm focusing on business development and operational excellence projects in the beverages, dairy and cheese and other FMCG categories.
Gauthier served as Global Senior Vice President External Growth at Interbrew and InBev (now AB InBev), leading the global Strategy, Business Development and M&A team and managing transactions such as the AmBev-Interbrew combination and securing acquisitions in Germany (Beck’s), Serbia and China before taking on the role of Head of Business Unit France-Netherlands-Spain-Cuba. He previously worked with Veolia Environment, the Artal Group, and as a management consultant with Genrho and Strategic Planning Associates.
He is a non-executive Director of craft brewery Belgo (Vietnam) and Co-Chair of the Canada Belgium Committee, having served on the board of Directors of beer group EBl N.V. (active in Russia, the CIS and Central Europe) and of Sedlmayr Grund und Immobilien KGaA (München-based real estate).
Gauthier read Law and Economics at Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), earned the INSEAD Certificate in Corporate Governance and attended executive courses at IMD and Stanford University.